Language and Phonetic

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Language noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.

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Phonetic and language are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Phonetic" instead an adjective "Language".

Phonetic adjective - Of or relating to speech sounds.

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Language and phonetic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Language" instead an adjective "Phonetic".

In other words, the language became more of a phonetic (spelt as it sounds) language since they only had verbal records and only later, written.

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Phonetic "translations" of foreign-language songs misheard into the listener's native language often fall into this.

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It should be noted that until very recently, Latin has commonly been pronounced according to the phonetic rules of the native language of the speaker.

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